{"id":36915,"date":"2025-12-05T10:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/is-there-a-better-model-than-snapshot-timestamp-for-temporal-datasets\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:27:25","slug":"is-there-a-better-model-than-snapshot-timestamp-for-temporal-datasets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/is-there-a-better-model-than-snapshot-timestamp-for-temporal-datasets\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Better Model Than Snapshot + Timestamp For Temporal Datasets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Most public datasets treat time as versions &#8211; snapshot at T1, T2, T3. But that makes it impossible to query change <em>within<\/em> the interval. I\u2019m exploring an append-only, bitemporal structure (valid_from \/ valid_to) \u2014 but it\u2019s storage-heavy and tricky for non-SQL users. Has anyone built a temporal model that\u2019s efficient, queryable, and still human-readable?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Vivid_Stock5288\"> \/u\/Vivid_Stock5288 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1peq286\/is_there_a_better_model_than_snapshot_timestamp\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1peq286\/is_there_a_better_model_than_snapshot_timestamp\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-36915 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='36915' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-36915 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-36915 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most public datasets treat time as versions &#8211; snapshot at T1, T2, T3. But that makes it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}